I seem to have developed a thing for trying to save scrawny trees. When I had such a notion last spring, near where I work at SF’s Civic Center, it met an ignoble end.
Sometime earlier this summer there was a fire in the old campground out on the former naval air station, where I walk the pups. The kids sometimes party [...]
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Scorched Flora & Snatched Fauna
Posted in animals, dogs, gardening, life, pets, photography, walking on November 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A Follow-up on Several Fronts
Posted in animals, cooking, e-scrapbook, gardening, nature, pets, photography on September 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
First, the pears. I’m rather amazed at how reluctant these pears are to ripen. This picture was taken in early September, and you can see how green they remain:
Molly Cat Gets A Bit Bolder
Posted in animals, cats, dogs, pets, photography on August 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
As I mentioned back here, a cat has joined our household–for the first time since our dear 20-year-old Millicent passed on, back on Groundhog’s Day in 2006. (I hope that, a la the Bill Murray movie of that name, Millicent has moved on to another of her lives.)
Various and Asundry and Asides on a Sunday
Posted in animals, dogs, gardening, life, pets, photography on August 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
We’re getting ready to leave town, which means my life is once again a half-baked scramble to do a to-do list before it to-does to me.
Hello, Molly
Posted in animals, pets on August 17, 2009 | 10 Comments »
We have a new addition to the household.
A hike up a hill
Posted in animals, birding, dogs, nature, pets, travel, walking on June 16, 2009 | 10 Comments »
A few years ago, a friend and coworker of mine told us of a nice place to go for a walk up near Sonora, called Table mountain. Table mountain is a mesa, and just below the ridgeline there is a nice trail, through a pasture.
Off to the Foothills
Posted in animals, dogs, nature, pets, travel, walking on May 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The wife, the pups, and I are heading for the Sierra foothills in a few hours. Mostly, when I get my to-do list to-done.
Disney Does the Zoo
Posted in animals, culture, e-scrapbook, entertainment, nature, pets, photography, politics, thoughts, travel on March 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I have a lot of ambivalence about animals in cages or pens. It’s born of childhood visits to Como Park Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota, and seeing the pacing cats behind bars in small cages. Fortunately, those cages are long gone now, and zoological parks have generally been upgraded and are more “humane” (ahem). Someone [...]
Ernie as Jackrabbit Matador
Posted in animals, dogs, e-scrapbook, life, nature, pets, walking on January 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We found jackrabbits this morning.
The Raised Paw
Posted in animals, dogs, life, love, nature, pets on December 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I have a former coworker, A, who has whippets, the petite racing dogs. She both races them and keeps them as pets.
I heard recently that A has trained her whippets to sit, expecting a treat, and to raise a paw before they are rewarded, as if they are students in class raising a hand to ask [...]
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